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RE: Spider Webs and Dewdrops

in GEMS2 years ago

Did you do the black on the dew drops with water color or prisma pen?

Do you find it difficult to go in with water color and make the drops round
(anti-drawing a circle, where all the colors bleed randomly, all over the place)

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Bleeding only happens when I work wet on wet with a good paper. Poor quality paper will bleed even when the bottom layer of paint is dry. I use an opaque watercolor called gouache. Also, I found quality paint is helpful. I prefer Winsor and Newton. Prisma ink pens will clog up going over Gouache and heavily pigmented watercolor paint, so I use posca pens to work on top of the color. I only used the Prisma pens on light pigmented objects.

I used black watercolor for the dewdrops. I work from light washes to dark and then use gouache paints. I don't have problems with precise shapes like dewdrops if I follow my rules.